‘Unchartered territory’: Ont. adds 4,227 new COVID-19 cases, second-highest ever

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Abdu Sharkawy says he does not expect to see a decline in COVID-19 cases in Ontario in the coming weeks.

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54 comments

  1. Ontario’s increase last March was around the 18th. Peaked end of April. This year the increase started on the 22nd. It’s like SEASONALITY or something.

    1. @snake plisken could you please provide your statistics for your thoughts? Not the ones based on the faulty PCR test, thx.

    2. @snake plisken If the increase in cases in Ontario is because of “bad behaviour” you’re going to have to explain how Texas has been completely open for a month with no mask mandate and infections keep going down. Will you explain it? I doubt it.

    1. They perform like and episode of Gilligan’s Island so mebbe the “unchartered” tour was a freudian slip.

    1. Not entirely true i tested positive 4 days after contact as did my gf and other family. But either way if take care of your self and arent elderly you will most likely be completely fine.

  2. I work at a toronto hospital and our covid wards non ICU are at best 60% full for a week. The ICU usually has a few beds open at any given time. This makes me angry the lockdown. According to the govt deaths are down 70% from last year this time.

    1. Which hospital? AT Sunnybrook that is completely wrong. We are generally full all the time and with a ward or more admitted in the ED

    2. Then why did a Toronto hospital send 5 Covid patients to hospitals in Kingston and Peterborough a few days ago , then within an hour that hospital got calls from other GTA hospitals that needed to send 6 covid patients to them ?

  3. What’s disappointing is that I’ve been out of work for over a year. I’ve applied to all the hospitals in the core, a dozen times over because I want to help and will put myself at risk even as a hospital porter, to just be able to go to work! But, I haven’t heard a peep.
    You can’t be that overwhelmed 😑

    1. Alexanndre Levan it actually does make sense, however the real reason is probably funding edit: lack thereof*

    2. They can’t afford porters. Hospital CEOs that make 6 figures and disregard there own regulations and go to Florida 5 times in the last year, that they can afford……

    3. Ya I have an in who worked in an emergency room that was completely empty for the entire 1st wave. Nurses were so bored they literally colored in coloring books to pass the time. And this is in a city of 500k.

    4. Same here nurse from the lakeshore hospital West Island Montreal said something to the effect not busier than usual.

    1. @Amelia Bedelia Fauci did a recent interview stating the test has little to no value over 26 ct’s. Silence from all the PhO’s on
      the actual settings only sows doubt. The Wh0 changed their recommendation from 40 to 20 immediately after Joe’s
      inauguration, read into that what you will…

    2. The count of cases recovered from COVID-19 in Canada was 948,521 as of April 8, 2021.

    3. @Amelia Bedelia destroyed again by facts….thx greg. Amelia, we really must meet. If we can figure out what makes you think the silly things you do we may be able to save society.

  4. Astra Zeneca for all civil servants ….European medical association confirms link to blood clot deaths

  5. Dr Nick says, let’s up the PCR cycles to 50 and the cases will go up again. Cases, infections, positive tests……..what is it Dr Nick?

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